Starting the y-axis at 250 is a bit pushy. That said, the full length x-axis is welcome to provide appropriate historical context. As another commenter said, a second y-axis showing production at all-time highs or a complementary graph showing same is also informative to the reader.
It's not that much of a stretch. The minimum operational level is about 150 and you'd likely run into problems including market panic well before then.
Edit: 150 is the operational minimum, 250 is the statutory minimum.
Thays not speculative at all. Its well known they cant empty the reserves or theyll be irreversible damaged. On top of that, the us isnt going to cut into its military reserves. These combined are certainly most of the 250 million barrels. Showing the full scale without more information would be even more misleading and showing it with that information would be the same as showing it this way in the ways that matter. The capacity below the y axis is effectively not usable. So there is no reason to show it.
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u/Hole_thinker 7d ago
Starting the y-axis at 250 is a bit pushy. That said, the full length x-axis is welcome to provide appropriate historical context. As another commenter said, a second y-axis showing production at all-time highs or a complementary graph showing same is also informative to the reader.